The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

Author:   Ignacio López-Calvo ,  Emma Nakatani
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
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9780826504944


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance


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Author:   Ignacio López-Calvo ,  Emma Nakatani
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780826504944


ISBN 10:   0826504949
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Emma Nakatani Introduction: Nikkei Cultural Production and Transpacific Studies from a Latin Americanist Perspective Part I: Immigrant, Literary Negotiations of National Identity 1. Nonaka's Memoir: From Captain in the Mexican Revolution to Enemy of the State 2. Challenges to Nihonjinron in Nakatani's Memoirs 3. Strategic Essentialism in Akane's Performative Tanka Part II: Japanese Mexican Visual and Performance Arts 4. Re-signifying Yamato-damashii and Utopian Socialism in the Manga Los samurÁis de MÉxico 5. Nishizawa's Biethnic Dialectics and the Critical Stereotyping of His Art 6. The Transpacific in Akiko's Theatrical Performance Conclusion. Another Past Is Possible Notes Bibliography Index

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[Lopez-Calvo's] project makes original contributions to the field, particularly in its treatment of literary, theatrical, and visual texts by Japanese Mexicans that have not previously been rigorously discussed before either independently or taken together. I am confident that it will encourage further scholarship in this area, since it is very much a first in its category. --Seth Jacobowitz, winner of the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities, 2017, and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture This project is meticulously researched. Through the study of memoirs, poetry, manga, painting, and theater, it brilliantly shows the Nikkei (Japanese Mexican) cultural production from 1906 until today. On a broader scale, Lopez-Calvo draws out implications for questions of transnational migration and national identity. This project makes a groundbreaking contribution to the historical dialogues between Asia and Latin America. --Araceli Tinajero, author of A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan


"Through the study of memoirs, poetry, manga, painting, and theater, [this book] brilliantly shows Nikkei cultural production from 1906 until today. On a broader scale, LÓpez-Calvo draws out implications for questions of transnational migration and national identity. This project makes a groundbreaking contribution to the historical dialogues between Asia and Latin America.""—Araceli Tinajero, author of A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan ""[Lopez-Calvo's] project makes original contributions to the field, particularly in its treatment of literary, theatrical, and visual texts by Japanese Mexicans that have not previously been rigorously discussed before, either independently or taken together.""—Seth Jacobowitz, winner of the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities, 2017, and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture"


Through the study of memoirs, poetry, manga, painting, and theater, [this book] brilliantly shows Nikkei cultural production from 1906 until today. On a broader scale, LOpez-Calvo draws out implications for questions of transnational migration and national identity. This project makes a groundbreaking contribution to the historical dialogues between Asia and Latin America. -Araceli Tinajero, author of A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan [Lopez-Calvo's] project makes original contributions to the field, particularly in its treatment of literary, theatrical, and visual texts by Japanese Mexicans that have not previously been rigorously discussed before, either independently or taken together. -Seth Jacobowitz, winner of the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities, 2017, and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture


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Ignacio LÓpez-Calvo is a professor of literature, director of the Center for the Humanities, and Presidential Chair in the Humanities at UC Merced.

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